Ironing It Out

I spent some serious time ironing today.  All morning I looked for little pockets of time to trim fabric pieces - while daughter finished her breakfast, while waiting for my friend to come by for his photo op.  I finally got it all separated by mid-afternoon, and then spent about two hours ironing.  Remind me next time that shopping for fabric without a plan is a Bad Idea and will always result in overbuying and thus overironing.

I zoned out a little while DH played with our daughter before dinner and started sketching out a plan for daughter's quilt. After three drafts, I finally have one that I like.  Since the fabric is all washed and ironed, I'm ready to start cutting it, but I need to double check my math first.  They always say, measure twice, cut once.  I'm using the "Medallion Magic" quilt design from Quick Colorful Quilts for Beautiful Beds (Rosemary Wilkinson, editor), but I'm making a crib-size quilt, so I have to scale it down. If my calculations are right, I'll be knee high in 3" fabric squares tomorrow.  Again, remind me next time that shopping for fabric without a plan is a Bad Idea and may result in owning yards and yards of fabric that have no purpose.  I have at least three cuts of fabric that I thought I might use for this project, and in fact they don't match at all and have been rejected.

I also got the vinyl attached to the bib fabric for #29.  I had to wash the dirty bib pile today, so when the one I want to copy is dry + I have time, I'll mark up the vinyl/fabric assembly for cutting. 

I would also like to brag on my friend who popped by today.  I thought he was only coming to do campaign-style shots, but it turns out he is also recently engaged, and brought his fiancee along for some photos as well.  Congratulations you two!  All the best wishes for a great election season and a wonderful life beyond.  I'm honored you wanted to use my house for photos.

What's next - double-checking measurements and cutting lots of squares!!!